No. ARETZ1976-001
Atshuana pumbuentzade, Morona Santiago
Ecuador · Morona Santiago Province · South America · Upper Amazon
Play / practical
pumbuentzade
Source term: palo zumbador
pumbuentzade: the Atshuana name for the palo zumbador.
Among the Atshuana of Morona Santiago, in the forested foothills of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, the bullroarer belonged to the children. Spun on its cord, a palo zumbador seems to break the air: its hum climbs out of the low register, falls away below hearing, and suddenly climbs again.
En la prov. Morona Santiago de Ecuador, los Atshuana lo llaman pumbuentzade y lo usan los niños como juego.
In Ecuador's Morona Santiago province, the Atshuana call it pumbuentzade and children use it as a game.
José Pérez de Arce, 'Aerófonos sin resonador, aerófonos de aire a presión,' Instrumentos Sonoros de Sudamérica (2025), p. 1817, citing cat 4000 Años 1976:18.
Particulars
- Object
- Palo zumbador: a board perforated at one end, threaded with a cord and spun to hum.
- Function
- Children's game.